Member Login

Performing Rights Licensing and Score Rentals

In many cases, the composer will grant free performing rights for performances of his works. This is determined on a case-by-case basis. Performance parts for ensembles and orchestral works are also available here for rental.

Become a Member!

User Name:

Firstname:

Lastname:

Email:

Password:

Confirm:

A password will be e-mailed to you.

What Is Your Interest?

Indicate Your Role. Check all that apply!

Pianist/Performer:

Composer:

Conductor:

Other Musician:

Concert Administrator:

Other Role:

Provide Additional Details. This field is required to submit a registration request. Be precise but brief!

Details:

Please enter the security code, then click the Register button. If you do not see the Security Control image, close this browser window and try again. Alternatively, you can close this panel then click on the Register link in the upper right corner just above the Search field of this site.

Teaching

Thoughts about teaching, aesthetics, art and the responsible citizen which the composer has grown into over many years of composing, performing and teaching.
From the time I was very young, I somehow knew that my life's work was in music. I had envisioned myself ultimately as being a member of the teaching academy in some university or institution of "higher" learning. As much as I tried to pursue that path, the vicissitudes of life guided me along a different way. Being shut out of jobs, passed over by others, trivialized for not fitting into any "school of composition", disrespected because my foundational aesthetic challenged accepted dogma, or simply not taken seriously because of my gentle nature, has liberated me from the misguided notion that teaching in colleges, universities or any school of music for that matter, is the ultimate talisman of achievement. I share my thoughts on teaching here to describe the path not taken that I actually took!

Published on Sunday, August 31, 2014

Beginning On the Path Not Taken

How my journey as a pianist and composer began.

I began studying piano at the age of six. However, after several lessons I complained to my mother that I wasn’t learning anything. About a year later I took up piano lessons, this time with Theodore Gorbacheff, a Russian choral director and piano teacher living in Berkeley. Mr. Gorbacheff guided my musical development for the next ten years, introducing me to Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and of course Russian composers like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. My passion for composition emerged early when as a child I began to write pieces emulating the style of Bach whom I was studying at the time. For me, performance and composition merged into one as I continued my studies in piano and composition in college. During those early formative years prior to college I already was performing regularly for church. In addition Mr. Gorbacheff would often have me accompany his vocal men’s quartet and vocal soloists, as well as have me perform as piano soloist. Thus, even before college I was not only a student of music but also a practicing performer. Indeed, during my senior year in high school I formed a jazz trio (piano, drums, bass), and together we played a few paying “gigs”.

I developed a great interest in and love for music from this early training, and as I entered college, it just seemed like the right thing to pursue. As a result, I now find great pleasure in sharing this joy of music with others. Teaching music for me is not a "job", it is a passion!